Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-09-02
FARM and HOUSEHOLD.
MAEIRG AND APPLYING MANURE.

MAEING AND APPLYING MANURE.
A correspondent Of the Ohio
Farmer gives some timely counsel
on the subject of manures to read
ers of that journal "There is no
part of the manure lost when stock
IS kept we'll bedded in box stalls,
but as this kind of manureis bulky
it should never he handled but
once or twice. 1t should be hauled
out through the winter whenever
convenient, pulling or throwing it
OF in small piles on the sod where
it is intended to plough for corn,
scattering it out and ploughing 1t
mp. The horse and COW manure
should be strictly pure and unadul-
terated while in the stable. This
can be best done by removing the
fresh manure every morning, bed
ding the animals with a shovelful
or two of dry horse or COW manure,
which makes the best absorbent
that / have ever been able TO find.
The COW manure for bedding is
collected in the summer from the
milking yard. In a dry time, after
a lot of it is tramped up and mixed
with the dust, scrape 1t up and
haul it into a place prepared for 1t
convenient to the stables. The adj
vantage of having this kind OF
bedding With manure that is to be
handled often is the saving of time.
One can take out almost as much
pure manure III a wheelbarrow as
there would be in a wagon-load
where large quantities of coarse
litter are used.
at IS best to begin the compost
by taking about ten feet at a time
clear across the place prepared
Spread on ABBOTT a foot OF horse
and COW manure mixed, then work
it over once after this. Make a
layer of fresh manure and a layer
of earth, always leaving the earth
on top, to prevent evaporation, II
the maure should heat. l put into
this pile everything can "rake and
scrape," that will add to its bulk
and value. l have the fields so
arranged that l can adopt a four or
six years. rotation OF crops. find
the following plan good one; LIST
year. corn on sod with all the ma
nure; End year, oats seeded with
clover; Sd year, clover; 4th year,
potatoes 5th year, wheat seeded
with timothy; 9th year, meadow.
"The avsntage of applying all
the manure to this one crop is that
the after crops will draw on this
one thorough manuring as it de-
composes and mixes with the soil.
If a farmer wishes to use COM
mercial fertilizers, he should use
bone dust with the oats or wheat,
and land plaster on the clover and
potatoes. He should plough all
the long manure under, through
the winter and early spring
then, after narrowing once, top
dress with fine, composted manure,
and work it in well so that the
roots of the young corn can utilize
it when most needed. When the
ears are forming, the roots will
draw on the cOarser manure be-
meath. 1t IS well to keep the hog
pen supplied with plenty of absorb
ents, and the hen manure, which is
worth its weight in wheat, should
be as carefully saved, all of it, as
is the grain. 1 have a tight floor
under the roots and keep plenty OF
dry earth mixed with their drop
pings.
1.-THE wood ashes should all be
saved and put around the fruit
| trees. We must not forget the
night soil, the best manure of all.
Keep this well supplied with dry
earth and mix it with the compost.
After have all the manure hauled
out IN the spring, l prepare for the
next years compost. l endeavor
TO save five loads of manure for
every acre of land | own. By
b cling diligent it is possible for one
to Go it, and if he does he must
not try to spread it all over his
farm, but if his land is poor, put it
all on two or three acres, and II
very poor, put it all on one.